“Remember Who I’m Becoming”: How Looki Makes the Small Wins Visible

Courtney T. is a poet, writer, and photographer from Rochester, New York. A few years ago, his life looked very different. He had studied public administration and worked in the U.S. public sector. Then, in 2024, severe lupus changed the direction of his life.

By 2025, Courtney had stepped away from work to focus on his health. In early 2026, he went through an especially serious period of illness. Today, he is still recovering and rebuilding his routines, his creative work, and a version of everyday life that feels like his own again.

Memory has become an important part of that process. Courtney has significant memory loss and remembers very little of much of 2025. That experience changed the way he thinks about keeping a record of ordinary days.

“Looki showed up at exactly the right moment.”

For Courtney, Looki is not something he saves for vacations or special events. He wears it every day.

He Had Known About Looki for a While—Then It Suddenly Made Sense

Courtney follows technology closely and describes himself as an early adopter. He uses tools such as Gemini, Claude, and Grok for different parts of his work and life, and he is often the most enthusiastic person about AI among his friends and family.

So Looki was not new to him when he finally decided to buy one.

He had seen the product before and followed what it was doing, but he did not feel the need to jump in immediately. Then, one day, Looki appeared again in an Instagram ad.

This time, his reaction was different.

“It has a function in my life.”

The idea of having a small wearable camera that could quietly keep parts of his day suddenly felt practical rather than experimental. For someone dealing with memory loss, the ability to go back to moments later had become much more personal.

Once Courtney started using Looki, it quickly became part of his everyday routine. He likes that the device is compact and lightweight enough that wearing it does not add much friction to his day.

He also enjoys the first-person perspective. As a photographer, he is used to thinking about what a camera sees. With Looki, the point of view is much closer to his own experience of the day: the people in front of him, the places he goes, and the details that happen while his hands are occupied with something else.

Some of His Favorite Memories Were Never Planned as Photos

One of Courtney’s favorite examples came from the first time he met his girlfriend in person.

Looki came along for the day. Instead of Courtney having to decide when to take out a phone and turn the meeting into something to document, the device captured pieces of what was already happening.

There was coffee. They exchanged gifts. They shared non-alcoholic drinks. And, most importantly to Courtney, Looki captured the smiles between them.

Those are exactly the kinds of details that can seem obvious while they are happening and become much more valuable later.

For Courtney, that is where first-person capture becomes interesting. A memory is not reduced to one posed photo from the day. He can return to several small pieces of the experience and see how it actually unfolded.

He feels similarly about time with friends, family, and the ordinary parts of recovery. Not every moment needs to become a deliberate photo opportunity in order to be worth seeing again.

The Journal Helps Him See the Small Wins Adding Up

Courtney is still rebuilding his physical routines. Much of his time can be quiet, with long periods spent sitting or resting. When he does get up to go somewhere, exercise, meet someone, or work on something meaningful, those moments can matter much more than their duration suggests.

The gym is one of the clearest examples.

Getting back to exercise is not a single milestone for Courtney. It is a repeated process: showing up, rebuilding strength, relearning what his body can do, and then doing it again.

Looki gives those individual sessions somewhere to remain.

One of Courtney’s Looki Journal pages is titled “Little Wins Today.” It brings together illustrated pieces of an ordinary day rather than waiting for one major event to define it.

That format fits the way Courtney thinks about recovery.

“I’m not just journaling with it, I’m using it to track the slow, necessary, unglamorous work of recovery: getting back in the gym, relearning routines, loving my new self, noticing the small wins that used to feel invisible.”

Another Journal recap shows Courtney at the gym. On its own, it is simply one workout. Inside the much longer period he is living through, it becomes one more piece of evidence that he got up, went out, and did something he had been working toward.

Courtney especially enjoys Looki’s Comics and Vlogs because they let him revisit the day in forms that feel different from a traditional photo album. He likes seeing ordinary events turned into something visual, while still recognizing the people and moments that made up the day.

He would love to see even more of those longer-form recaps in the future—especially on active days when several things happen and there is more of the story to look back on.

The Magnetic Stand Lets the Photographer Enter the Memory

There is another Looki feature Courtney talks about with particular enthusiasm: the Magnetic Charging Stand.

Most of the time, Looki records from his point of view. The stand changes that.

Courtney can set Looki down while it charges and point the camera toward himself. At his desk, for example, that means the device can capture Courtney working rather than only what Courtney is looking at.

For someone who is both a photographer and a person actively trying to preserve more of his own life, that distinction matters.

He does not always want to be the invisible person behind the camera. Sometimes he wants to be part of the record too.

The stand gives him an easy way to switch between those two perspectives without turning everyday recording into a complicated setup.

Remembering Is Also Part of Meeting the Person He Is Now

Courtney has returned to writing as part of this new chapter of his life. He is working on a new book, writing poetry again, and has started a new Instagram account. People have reached out to him as he shares more of what he has been through and what rebuilding looks like now.

The record he is creating with Looki sits alongside that creative work.

Some days contain obvious progress. Other days are quieter. The Journal gives Courtney a way to return to both.

“Looki captures those moments in a way that makes them feel like they matter, because they do. It’s become part of how I remember who I’m becoming, not just who I was.”

That distinction—between who he was and who he is becoming—is important to Courtney. He is not simply trying to reconstruct the life he had before getting sick. He is learning new routines, returning to old interests, creating again, spending time with people he cares about, and getting to know this version of himself as it takes shape.

Having a visual record gives him another way to see those changes over time.

For Courtney, Looki Has Become “My Best Friend”

When Courtney was asked to describe Looki in three words, he did not choose three technical features.

His answer was:

“My Best Friend.”

He also describes Looki as an AI wearable assistant and, in his own words, a “healthcare companion.” For Courtney, those descriptions come from the role it plays alongside the rest of his day—not from replacing the people or professionals around him, but from helping him keep a personal record he can return to.

That record can contain a gym session, a quiet day at home, the first time he met his girlfriend, time with friends, or another ordinary moment that did not seem important enough to deliberately photograph when it happened.

Courtney knows more than most how much of a year can become difficult to retrieve from memory alone. Now, as he writes, creates, goes back to the gym, spends time with the people he loves, and continues rebuilding, he has another way to keep pieces of those days close.

“What I want most from Looki going forward is for it to keep growing alongside people like me: folks rebuilding memory, identity, and momentum one ordinary day at a time.”